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Financial and program highlights

Financial highlights

2002/03
2001/02

Revenues
$191,806,300

$178,224,900

Contribution (reduction) to corporate equity
($952,700)
$2,606,200
Total corporate equity/net worth
$125,335,700
$119,713,400
Total assets
$292,468,900
$269,815,200

Program highlights

2002/03
2001/02

Participating libraries (libraries that use OCLC Cataloging, Resource Sharing and Reference Services)
45,402
42,489
Average Cataloging and Resource Sharing transactions per day for online hours, Monday—Friday, excluding holidays
3.74 million
3.96 million
Average Cataloging and Resource Sharing transactions per second for peak online hours, Monday—Friday, excluding holidays
87.42
96.67
Total Cataloging and Resource Sharing messages processed
1.097 billion
1.148 billion
Total number of records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog)*
50.1 million
47.8 million

Books and other materials cataloged online
27.3 million
26.5 million
Books and other materials cataloged by batchloading processes
27.4 million
22.9 million
Cataloging records added to WorldCat
2.3 million
2.7 million
Duplicate records removed from WorldCat through the Duplicate Detection and Resolution Program
39,844
58,354
Catalog records generated on computer tape or by FTP for subscribers
5.6 million
6.2 million
Number of records exported online from WorldCat to local systems
33.8 million
33.2 million
Custom-printed catalog cards ordered
4.7 million
6.0 million
Locations listings in WorldCat for library materials
889 million
851 million
Serials Union List volume-specific holdings (LDR)
8.0 million
8.7 million
Online interlibrary loans transacted
9.3 million
8.9 million

OCLC ILL Fee Management service
    Participants
2,020
1,908
    Transactions
736,225
647,654
    ILL charges transferred
$9.7 million
$8.2 million
Resource Sharing Groups supported
245 groups
222 groups
 
18,081 libraries
17,344 libraries

OCLC RetroCon services projects under way
64
142
MARS Authority Services
241 libraries
233 libraries
OCLC TechPro service cataloging
331,621 titles
216,034 titles
 
314 libraries
296 libraries
Collection Development—Language Sets
124 libraries
78 libraries
 
40,453 volumes
32,366 volumes
 
12 languages
6 languages

LTS Library Technical Services—started in 2001
83,484 titles
90,135 titles
 
13 libraries
7 libraries
OCLC Automated Collection Analysis Services (ACAS)
72 libraries
108 libraries
OCLC LaserCat/FastCat Service
467 libraries
398 libraries
OCLC/WLN Conspectus Database software licensees
55 libraries
64 libraries

OCLC FirstSearch authorizations
43,124
42,045
OCLC FirstSearch searches
99.8 million
93.6 million
OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online
4,607 journals
4,102 journals
 
70 publishers
69 publishers

Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, edition 21—copies sold (published July 1996)
1,267
1,402
Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, edition 13—copies sold (published July 1997)
2,338
3,123
WebDewey
796
676
Abridged WebDewey
102
74
OCLC CatExpress service subscriptions
1,640
1,388

QuestionPoint implementations (includes consortia and individual libraries)
350
n/a
    Global Knowledge Base
4,100 records
    Countries
19
    Questions asked
89,000

CONTENTdm users
107
n/a
    CONTENTdm collections
1,000
    CONTENTdm objects
1.1 million

Olive software users
6
n/a
    Newspaper titles digitized
15
    Newspaper pages digitized
295,679

netLibrary
8,369 libraries
6,896 libraries
    Average page views per month
3.9 million
1.9 million
    Highest page views per month
5.1 million
3.8 million

*This number reflects total unique records after duplicate detection resolution and is always lower than the highest OCLC control number assigned to a record, which now exceeds 53 million.

Year in review | Financial and program highlights | OCLC Research 1978-2003